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Privacy Policy and Terms of Use - fighttoxins.com

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use - fighttoxins.com

Privacy Policy

Seventh Generation will never sell your personal information to anyone ever. For petitions and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat certain information you may provide, including, your name, city, state, and comments, as public information, which means anyone can access and view it. We will not make your street address publicly available (if collected), but we may transmit it to your state legislators, governor, members of Congress, or the President as part of a petition. Seventh Generation will send you updates on this and other important campaigns by email. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so.

By using or accessing the Services or the Site, you signify your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please exit the Site immediately, uninstall the App from your electronic device, and/or otherwise discontinue all use of the Services.

Seventh Generation's public petition website, http://www.fighttoxins.com (the "Site"), are operated by Seventh Generation, Inc. ("We" or "Us" or "Seventh Generation"). We want you to know what you should expect when you use this Site. This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and to data gathered only on the Site. This privacy policy does not apply to any other website or any offline contact between Seventh Generation and any other entity or offline contact between you and Seventh Generation.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so by following the unsubscribe link included in any email from Seventh Generation. The Site is directed to users in the United States only. This privacy policy was last updated on February 3, 2014.

You may visit the Site and review some of its contents without providing any personal information to Seventh Generation. To sign a petition, to make comments, or to upload content, such as photographs, on Seventh Generation's petition website, you may be asked to become a member of the Site ("Member"), and must provide accurate information including your first name, last name, address, phone number, email address, and street address ("Personal Information"). Signing a petition does not require you to become a member, but you must supply accurate information including your name, state, and email address. Once you sign a petition, some of your information will be made public, including without limitation your first name, last name, and state ("Public Petition Information"). Public Petition Information - that is, information that is provided generally during the petition signing process - is considered public information, and you should assume that it will be made public. All other information you have been asked to provide will not be made public. Your Personal Information will be shared with Seventh Generation, Inc., but only Public Petition Information will be available to the public.

Seventh Generation may send you updates about the Site and about any petition you created or signed by email. You can remove yourself from the Seventh Generation mailing lists at any time by following the instructions contained in any email communication you receive.

Except as noted in this Privacy Policy, we do not, without your express permission, share your email address or telephone number with other organization or company EXCEPT for the following:

Seventh Generation, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

Affiliated Third Parties - for example, our database administrators or organizations that provide extra organizers at an urgent time - for the sole purpose of helping Us do our work. These groups do not share your personal information or use it for any purpose other than as instructed by Us.

Third-Party Administrators, such as organizations we engage to facilitate large distribution of messages. The content of these emails will be from Seventh Generation, Inc. and these third parties do not have direct access to your personally identifiable information.

Petitions are public documents. That means that the public may have access to your name, city, state, and any comments you make while on the Site, as well as the content of the petition(s) you have signed. In addition, you or Seventh Generation - with your permission - may affirmatively pass along Personal Information to the following groups and individuals (as is standard practice):

Third-party networking sites that you choose to use to share the petition(s) you sign.

In addition to this Privacy Policy, Our Terms of Use outline how and when Seventh Generation's petition website should be used. In cases where we determine that Members may be misusing our systems for malicious purposes (for example, petition creators sending harassing or commercial email to petition signers), or, in Seventh Generation's discretion, any purpose that is inconsistent with our Terms of Use, such activities may be reported to law enforcement agencies. In such cases, Seventh Generation may release personally identifiable information, including name and address, to those agencies. Seventh Generation will also release Personal Information pursuant to a valid subpoena or court order.

Please review this privacy policy periodically because we modify it from time to time. Each time you visit this Site or provide us with information through the Site, by doing so you are accepting the terms of this privacy policy in effect at that time. You are also accepting our specific rules or Terms of Use, which may be posted on specific sections of the Site.

PETITIONS

For petitions you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information and reserve the right to share that information with anyone and to disclose it publicly in connection with the transmittal of petitions and publicizing of such petitions. For example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the president, members of Congress, state elected officials and/or state legislators, the media, and/or other nonprofit or advocacy or political organizations. If collected, we will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit that address to the president, members of Congress, state elected officials and/or state legislators. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, and state, available to the targets of petitions other than those noted above, the press, and public online.

CHILDREN

This Site is not directed at children and Seventh Generation does not knowingly collect information - nor does it want to collect information - from anyone under the age of 18. Seventh Generation does not solicit personally identifying information from children. If Seventh Generation learns that it has Personally Identifiable Information on a child under the age of 13, Seventh Generation will delete that information from its systems. Seventh Generation encourages parents and guardians to monitor children's online usage. Parental control protections, such as computer hardware, software or filtering services, are commercially available to limit the access to material that is harmful to minors.

ADVERTISING

We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other sites on the Internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the Site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors.

DATA TRACKING

In order to better serve our members, we use cookies and periodically analyze web logs. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal to most Seventh Generation members.

URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL that contains an ID - we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs that do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser's address bar when you access the page.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Site may provide links to third-party websites, and other websites may provide links to the Site. Third-party websites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. Seventh Generation has no control over such third-party websites, and by using this Site, you acknowledge and agree that Seventh Generation is not responsible for the availability of such third-party sites, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that Seventh Generation will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

Seventh Generation, Inc. may revise or amend this policy at any time at our sole discretion. If we make any substantive changes in the way we collect or use personally identifying information provided by users, we will post a prominent announcement on our website home page and post the changes on this page. We endeavor to, and make commercially reasonable efforts only to, change our policies and practices to make them more protective of Member information collected prior to the effective date of any changes. We will keep you informed of changes and we encourage all users to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.

CONTACT

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, your personal information, or the practices of this Site, you can contact us.

Seventh Generation, Inc. Terms of Service

Thanks for using our products and services ("Services"). The Services are provided by Seventh Generation, Inc. ("Seventh Generation"), located at 60 Lake St., Burlington, VT 05402, United States.

By using our Services, you are agreeing to the following Terms of Use ("Terms"). Please read them carefully. In addition, when using the Service, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines and rules applicable to such service, which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines and rules are incorporated by reference into these Terms.

Using our Services

Do not misuse or otherwise interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including applicable export and re-export control laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.

Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you access. You may not use content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Don't remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services.

Our Services display some content that is not Seventh Generation's. This content is the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available. We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we review content, so please don't assume that we do.

In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt out of some of those communications.

Some of our Services are available on mobile devices. Do not use such Services in a way that distracts you and prevents you from obeying traffic or safety laws.

The Services include the signing and dissemination of petitions and raising awareness for issues related to public policy issues, policy, and legislation. By using our Services, e.g., signing a petition, you agree to provide accurate and complete information as failure to do so shall be a breach of these Terms and may result in a suspension or termination of your access to the Services.

Privacy and Copyright Protection

Seventh Generation's privacy policies explain how we treat your personal data and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our Services, you agree that Seventh Generation can use such data in accordance with our privacy policies.

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that any material on any of the Sites infringes upon any copyright which you own or control, you or your designee, acting as a "Complaining Party", may send a notification of such claimed infringement to our Designated Agent as set forth below:

Full Address of Designated Agent to Which Notification Should be Sent:

Designated Agent
91 College St.
Burlington, VT 05402

Modifying and Terminating our Services

We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether.

You can stop using our Services at any time. Seventh Generation may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time.

We believe that you own your data and preserving your access to such data is important. If we discontinue a Service, where reasonably possible, we will give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to get information out of that Service.

Our Warranties and Disclaimers

Seventh Generation provides Services using a commercially reasonable level of skill and care.

Any signatures provided on petitions are not guaranteed to be legally valid signatures that would be recognized and/or accepted by any government or organization. Seventh Generation shall use reasonable efforts to deliver received signatures to their intended recipients or use the signatures for their stated purpose, but cannot guarantee that all, some, or any of the signatures will be delivered or put to their intended use or will be used in another way consistent with the Services.

OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS, NEITHER SEVENTH GENERATION NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON'T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES "AS IS".

SOME JURISDICTIONS PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, LIKE THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL WARRANTIES.

Liability for our Services

WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, SEVENTH GENERATION, AND SEVENTH GENERATION'S SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA, FINANCIAL LOSSES OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF SEVENTH GENERATION, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIMS UNDER THESE TERMS, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE THE SERVICES (OR, IF WE CHOOSE, TO SUPPLYING YOU THE SERVICES AGAIN).

IN ALL CASES, SEVENTH GENERATION, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.

About these Terms

We may modify these Terms or any additional terms that apply to a Service to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our Services. You should look at the Terms regularly. We'll post notice of modifications to these Terms on this page. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than fourteen days after they are posted. However, changes addressing new functions for a Service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms for a Service, you should discontinue your use of that Service.

If there is a conflict between these Terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will control for that conflict.

These Terms control the relationship between Seventh Generation and you. They do not create any third party beneficiary rights.

If you do not comply with these Terms, and we don't take action, this doesn't mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have (such as taking action in the future).

If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.

The laws of Vermont, U.S.A., excluding Vermont's conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Chittenden County, Vermont, U.S.A., and you and Seventh Generation consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

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